I have to say, while not a huge fan of apple…

Most of these hacks I’ve seen seem to have long been patched out.

I still feel iPhones are largely more secure overall even if simply because on average I’m pretty confident the fleet of iPhones in use are using much more up to date software than android devices.

I am now using Firefox…

I mean I was using Firefox before this, but I also am now as well you know.

A lot of the major anger is coming from businesses and government and to be completely honest…

If the system your business or government agency has implemented requires 100% up time and relies on a cellular network or any network or power grid for that matter, guess who’s responsible for ensuring that there is adequate redundancy to insure a outage does not occur or is very unlikely to occur…?

Ding ding ding that’s you, you are the one responsible, or the person who you had design it and set the standard and enforce it…

Business and government agencies/services implemented systems with a single point a failure to cut costs, when I absofuckinglutly guarantee that a network engineer brought up that maybe they should add redundancy and was shot down by bean counters.

And now that it’s blown up in their fucking face they have turned around and are trying to redirect attention from shareholders and the public back on to Optus.

Optus fucked up, but no more than if a power line came down when the power company had one of their trucks back into it and the power went out.

If people are going to die if the shit you are designing doesn’t work, or you business is going to loose tons of money, that’s your responsibility to design and implement something that does not have a single point of failure.

Firstly it’s not a Max version.

Second, the Australian airforce and Boeing developed this plane together and have already had it in service for many years with fantastic success and reliability.

I believe the UK RAF also has some in service.

It’s been operated with many of our allies on joint operations and sometimes with observers as they all knew that their AWACS fleets were in pretty desperate need to be replaced and were accessing it.

It is by far the most capable platform of this type, and it’s a ready to go mature design that the countries looking to come on board have already been operating along side and supporting in real operations.

Wait… a pixel with screen issues

Where have I seen this before.

Remember when CPU’s / GPU’s had clockspeeds that didn’t include “up to”

I understand why it’s better net performance doing it this way and better uses the whole potential performance of the chip.

That still doesn’t make me like it, not because of the technical reasons, but because of the way they twist the marketing, it could hit 6ghz for 1 microsecond and they could still claim #nowupto6ghz!

I am much, much more likely to be willing to pay for Ublock than I am YouTube.

I don’t think so…

This might apply if they were not going to just level the place.

This will probably be more “shock and awe” combined arms level the place and anyone in it with the orders being that in 24h time anyone left there is to be considered an enemy combatant.

I don’t agree with killing civilians like that but that’s what’s going to happen. Because right now they feel they have the geopolitical cover to just going like a steamroller.

Oh man, look I don’t want to get into picking sides or whatever and it’s extremely cold hearted to look at is so frankly… but.

Israel is going to completely annex all of Palestine by force and fully occupy them even more than before…

They are already fully mobilising everything and looking steamroll anything that can’t get out of the way or that stands and fights.

The general vibe I’m seeing is they will do their best to straight up crush everything once and for all, while they feel they have the geo political cover to probably get away with it.

So many people are going to die.

It has also come out that there is a bug in the instagram app from what I’ve been reading.

This is causing a drastic increase in temperature and battery use on all iOS devices running ios17.

This could very well just be some app code bug that is caught in a processing loop.

It also explains why some people are seeing this and others are not, as not everyone is sitting on instagram while their phone is on charge.

After several hours of unventilated and insulated continuous unmoving and firm contact… definitely at risk of first degree burns here.

This is just to get clicks.

It’s not “overheating” either though is it?

46c is not that hot at all, that’s like half as hot as a cup of coffee.

It’s probably not ideal… but also not at all new and about the same as my S22 ultra hits under load or when charging which runs far cooler than my previous pixel 7 which would actively overheat if you tried to run maps while charging it on a warm day, to the point it would force the screen to min brightness after about 30min.

46c… lmfao what a stupid headline.

That is absolutely NOT “hot”or “overheating” for a piece of tech under stress.

The phone housing is the heat sync, and the phone is more powerful than many people’s few year old laptops.

Not to defend apple but this is just trying to sensationalise and farm clicks, my pixel 7 used to get way hotter doing just normal tasks to the point I was getting overheat warnings and the screen would shut off.

Now if it was more like 55c I could see that being an issue at least from a comfort standpoint.

On top of this, pointing a thermal camera as an emissive surface like glass… not the most accurate way to actually get a temperature reading, they should have used a thermal couple… but I’m guessing that would have showed an even less exciting click bait number.

In diplomatic speak, this is actually very strong language.

As an example one of the most extreme diplomatic phrases would be “x country has committed an unfriendly act”

Where do you think the saying “diplomatically speaking” comes from?

When the words you say can end in people dying or economic ruin, it makes you somewhat strongly consider exactly which words you should say.

In order to avoid… more aggressive negotiations from occurring.

The fact that their statement is clearly committing them to removing the barrier is strong language especially with the military power imbalance between the Phillipines and China.

China in the South China Sea is a bit like a 4 year old seeing what they can get away with.

Don’t blame me…

I want to give people a chance but why would I hire someone fresh with no experience who won’t except a starter wage because they think they are:

“qualified now and deserve a high pay”

Just because that’s what the for profit, higher education system has told them, does not make it true.

If someone had instead spent those four years in the industry gaining some experience from a beginner role, plus went and got a few industry certifications, I would be much much more likely to hire them and at a higher wage.

That would show that they are capable of actually functioning In the role, and have a bit of knowledge about how the real industry works, and how to function in a real workplace.

Doing well at university while admirable often requires completely different skills to what you end up needing in your chosen field. You can’t blame employers for knowing that and hiring accordingly.

I think nowadays the correct play is enter the industry you want to go into immediately out of school, at whatever basement level you can get in at, study part time to get the piece of paper while also getting real experience.

You will be far more capable (aka valuable) at the end of it.

See the issue is “gain all the skills”

Comes after the job

Grads know nothing… They just hopefully have the foundation concepts there now to build the true knowledge of how things work and are done in the real world.

That’s the real reason grads can’t get jobs… I’ll take someone with 10 years real world experience in the role or one similar and no on paper qualifications in a heartbeat over a fresh faced university graduate.

2nd from left

And there is no contest.